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Big Data Analytics

By : Venkat Ankam
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Big Data Analytics

By: Venkat Ankam

Overview of this book

Big Data Analytics book aims at providing the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Hadoop. All Spark components – Spark Core, Spark SQL, DataFrames, Data sets, Conventional Streaming, Structured Streaming, MLlib, Graphx and Hadoop core components – HDFS, MapReduce and Yarn are explored in greater depth with implementation examples on Spark + Hadoop clusters. It is moving away from MapReduce to Spark. So, advantages of Spark over MapReduce are explained at great depth to reap benefits of in-memory speeds. DataFrames API, Data Sources API and new Data set API are explained for building Big Data analytical applications. Real-time data analytics using Spark Streaming with Apache Kafka and HBase is covered to help building streaming applications. New Structured streaming concept is explained with an IOT (Internet of Things) use case. Machine learning techniques are covered using MLLib, ML Pipelines and SparkR and Graph Analytics are covered with GraphX and GraphFrames components of Spark. Readers will also get an opportunity to get started with web based notebooks such as Jupyter, Apache Zeppelin and data flow tool Apache NiFi to analyze and visualize data.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Big Data Analytics
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing graph processing


As the number of users increases to millions in large organizations, traditional relational database performance will be degraded while finding relationships between these users. For example, finding relationships between two friends results in a simple join SQL query. But, if you have to find a relationship with a friend of a friend, six levels deep, you have to join the tables six times in a SQL query which leads to poor performance. Graph processing finds relationships without performance degradation as the size of the graph grows. In relational databases, relationships are established only by joining tables. In graph databases, relationships are first-class citizens. Let's understand what a graph is and how they are created and processed.

What is a graph?

A graph is a collection of vertices connected to each other using edges as shown in the following Figure 9.1. Vertex is a synonym for node, which can be a place or person with associated relationships expressed...